Ramit Sethi

You're just throwing money away on rent.

And this is something we have been facing.

fed constantly for generations that in order to be successful, you must buy a house.

So when somebody like me comes around and says, actually, you should run the numbers because sometimes renting can be better.

People are shocked.

Same thing with if you want to be taken care of or you want someone to treat you or you want someone to pay for the first date.

Same thing when men come and they talk about being a provider.

But in certain relationships where they actually earn less and

I'll say to them, if we look at the numbers, you're not the provider.

So who are you?

And they're stumped.

And that is when we need to start grappling with the idea that maybe what we were told is not exactly true for us in our situation today.

Not necessarily.

I think that it is a different framework than we're used to.

When we think about my parents, for example, my mom stayed home with us, my dad went to work, single earner.

Simple.

Everybody knew where they stood, what the roles were.

It was very simple.

It's very difficult to do that today.

Housing is historically expensive.